Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 1203. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Q. Pomponius Musa. 56 BC. AR Denarius (3.56 gm). Diademed head of Apollo right / HERCVLES MVSARVM, Hercules standing right, playing lyre; club at his feet. Crawford 410/1; Sydenham 810; Pomponia 8. Good VF, attractively toned. Rare. ($750)

The coinage of Q. Pomponius Musa features the nine muses and Hercules Musagetes. Hercules, as leader of the choir, is shown playing a lyre, and the nine muses are shown with their various attributes. Q. Pomponius Musa is known only from his coins, and it can be assumed that his choice of the muses for his coins is intended as a reference to his cognomen Musa.